I originally wrote this article for a writing forum, but it’s relevant to part of what this blog was originally about, and it bears some relation to a few recent posts I’ve made, too.
Writing Romance
Romance. The very word makes some writers cringe in terror (and more than a few readers for that matter). It’s seen [...]
A Cliff Richards song that hit #1 at Christmas a few years ago. Somehow I prefer it to Mistletoe and Wine.
Well that’s me done for the year now. Assuming I don’t die from gluttony over christmas, I’ll be back in the new year with more… um… whatever it is I do around here. Merry christmas [...]
And I have pictures to prove it!
See? Nazi salute!
Anyone can make any symbol mean anything they want if they try hard enough. It is very easy to prove that the US is becoming fascist if you dig just a little.
And what does all of that prove? That the US is really the new nazi germany? [...]
Update
I spoke too soon! Charles has another post up, imaginatively titled Answering the Vlaams Belang Apologists, where he again claims that VB, others et al are extremists based on the words of, an, um… marxist. Yes. Because they’re so trustworthy in identifying “right wing extremism”.
It is obvious that VB has had a shady past. Every [...]
I do not live in a free country.
I remember, in the wake of Dunblane, there was a vocal minority that said they would come for knives after they banned guns. They were laughed at. At that point several types of knives were already banned or severely restricted but that didn’t matter. It was “paranoia”. Now [...]
The slight disagreement between LGF and Gates of Vienna (and others) – over “supremacists” vlaams belang and co – has apparently started down its home stretch. The latest story is making the rounds and a fascinating tale it is, too, dealing with symbology and the sort of historical context that the whole Web2.0 generation seem [...]
